About the Authors

Holger Cramer

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

h.cramer@kliniken-essen-mitte.de

Affiliations Department of Internal and Integrative Medicine, Kliniken Essen-Mitte, Faculty of Medicine, University of Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany, Australian Research Centre in Complementary and Integrative Medicine (ARCCIM), University of Technology Sydney, Sydney, Australia

Romy Lauche

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Internal and Integrative Medicine, Kliniken Essen-Mitte, Faculty of Medicine, University of Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany, Australian Research Centre in Complementary and Integrative Medicine (ARCCIM), University of Technology Sydney, Sydney, Australia

Jennifer Daubenmier

Roles Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Holistic Health Studies, Department of Health Education, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA, United States of America, Osher Center for Integrative Medicine, University of California San Francisco (UCSF), San Francisco, CA, United States of America

Wolf Mehling

Roles Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Holistic Health Studies, Department of Health Education, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA, United States of America, Osher Center for Integrative Medicine, University of California San Francisco (UCSF), San Francisco, CA, United States of America

Arndt Büssing

Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Center for Integrative Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Witten/Herdecke, Herdecke, Germany

Felix J. Saha

Roles Investigation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Internal and Integrative Medicine, Kliniken Essen-Mitte, Faculty of Medicine, University of Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany

Gustav Dobos

Roles Investigation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Internal and Integrative Medicine, Kliniken Essen-Mitte, Faculty of Medicine, University of Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany

Stephanie A. Shields

Roles Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Psychology, Pennsylvania State University, State College, PA, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.